Blog by Cliff Mayotte, OHA Education Committee “There’s so much to a person we don’t see on first glance that helps define them, and once we hear their story its like they become a different person.” – Student, 826 Chicago Why don’t we use the word “love” very often as a vital component in teaching […]
UC Berkeley’s Regional Oral History Office is thrilled to announce our 2014 Advanced Oral History Summer Institute, which will be held at UC Berkeley from August 11-15. After taking a hiatus last summer, we have made some changes to our always sold-out program. This year our focus will be on the “lifecycle of an interview”
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With the click of a mouse, the world now has access to the Las Vegas African American Experience Project, a vast collection of history now on the web. Claytee White, Director of the Oral History Research Center says a lot effort went into this, from oral interviews to a vast collection of photographs, manuscripts, articles
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post by Leslie McCartney, International Committee Web Liaison The Oral History Association’s annual meeting will be held in Madison, Wisconsin from October 8-12, 2014. Each year the International Committee offers scholarships to international presenters for the annual meeting. We encourage applications from a diverse population of people who might contribute to the association’s annual meeting. We
Post by Leslie McCartney, International Committee Web Liaison This year, the International Oral History Association’s 18th Conference will be held in Barcelona Spain on July 9-12, 2014. The conference theme is ‘Power and Democracy: the many voices of Oral History’. From the IOHA website: The force of democracy as well as the resistance it has met
Post by Rachel F. Seidman, Associate Director, Southern Oral History Program In March of last year, Lisa Nagel, Head of St. Anne’s School in Annapolis, Maryland, invited Felice Belman, then Editor in Chief of the Concord Monitor newspaper, and me to lead a workshop on interviewing, historical research and oral history. The eighth grade students at this
More than 3,000 of the National Archives of Singapore’s oral history interviews will be available to stream online through their new web portal. Read more.
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A new exhibition opening today at Hill Memorial Library showcases the historic trail to racial integration and the progression of civil rights at the University and in Baton Rouge. The goal of the exhibition is to reveal the various perspectives of integration and civil rights at the University, said Jennifer Abraham Cramer, director of LSU
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Little Rock Central High School oral historians featured on NPR piece: https://www.npr.org/2014/01/13/260461590/still-a-long-way-from-integration-at-central-high-school
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Oral History, Living History – Oral History Workshop Presented by The Southern Oral History Program at UNC-Chapel Hill Southern Oral History Program Workshop presenters: Malinda Maynor Lowery, Director; Rachel F. Seidman, Associate Director; Seth Kotch, Digital Humanities Coordinator. Thursday April 10, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Cost: $10.00 Limit: 40 Sponsored by: OAH Committee on Public History and
By Katie Kuszmar I teach at a high school in San Jose, and we recently had the opportunity to meet Father Greg Boyle, who started Homeboy Industries in East Los Angeles. Homeboy Industries is a very successful intervention and rehabilitation program for “homies” who want out of gangs. We read Boyle’s bestselling memoir, Tattoos on
Submissions are now being accepted for the 2014 OHA Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, held October 8-12. All proposals must be submitted through the conference software: https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/oha/oha14/. View the 2014 Call for Papers for more information.
